A loose coalition of eco-anarchist groups is increasingly launching violent attacks on scientists.

A group calling itself the Olga Cell of the Informal
Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front has claimed
responsibility for the non-fatal shooting of a nuclear-engineering
executive on 7 May in Genoa, Italy. The same group sent a letter bomb to
a Swiss pro-nuclear lobby group in 2011; attempted to bomb IBM’s
nanotechnology laboratory in Switzerland in 2010; and has ties with a
group responsible for at least four bomb attacks on nanotechnology
facilities in Mexico. Security authorities say that such eco-anarchist
groups are forging stronger links....MUCH MORE